In 2020, Tufts Wildlife Clinic Director Maureen Murray , V03, published a study that showed 100% of red-tailed hawks tested at the clinic were positive for exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs). Such exposure occurs when these chemicals are used to kill mice or rats, which eat the poison, and the birds eat the poisoned prey. Now, Murray is expanding that research with a new study published recently in the journal Environmental Pollution , which found that another type of rodenticide—a neurotoxicant called bromethalin—also can bioaccumulate in birds of prey.

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